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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1948
Page
1
Presidential rivals clash over Communism as Dewey and Warren advocate tough measures and jail threats for lawbreakers. Truman plans a bold Oklahoma City speech to counter the issue while emphasizing open debate and vigilance against Communist influence.
In Lancaster Ohio a volunteer posse forms to search for Clyde Dunick 69 who vanished Thursday in a wooded district near the Boys Industrial School. Sheriff Harley Highley ordered the hunt after deputies checked the area and Dunick’s companion Roy Blazer said the men separated at dawn.
Patricia Schmidt, a Toledo dancer convicted of homicide in Chicago, faces no near term pardon as President Grau San Martin concentrates on state and political matters. Grau’s term ends October 10.
A 20 year old Ohioan Sidney David Welsh of Steubenville signed a statement admitting he set the September 15 fire at the Marine Way Boatyard in Lantana Florida causing about 100000 in damage. He claimed responsibility for about 30 fires in Steubenville as well.
A youth quoted as saying the newspapers reported 25 fires, but he believes it reached 30. Motorcycle Patrolman Beck Thomas said the youth approached him at the bus station asking how to reach the police station.
Five people including four Americans and one Brit were rescued after 12 days lost in the Canadian wilderness when their Beechcraft crashed 25 miles northwest of The Pas, Saskatchewan. Capt. B. S. Custer and Lt. Charles Wilcox, Jack Kastner, MSgt. J. Scalise and Capt. Sir Robert Stirling Hamilton survived.
A bomb blasted the Cleveland area home of Dr. Joseph Tomarkin early today. Eight windows were shattered in the 12 room brick house. Dr Tomarkin his father mother wife and two children were in the home but only the mother was thrown from bed with no injuries. Dr Tomarkin a Huron Road Hospital staff member says he has no known enemies.
In Painesville Ohio two youths aged 21 and 24, John J. Ward and Donald G. Robinson, were killed when their car was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio freight train. Ernest Swank Harold Jewell and Ellis Anthony, all from Painesville, were listed in serious condition at Lake County Memorial Hospital.
Buck A. Jeter 33 pleads not guilty to manslaughter in the ice-pick slaying of Hubbard Reese 25. Reese was found with 30 stab wounds in a field near Waco after Jeter received treatment for seven wounds at a hospital.
House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. urged Ohio Republicans to join a national crusade against what he called bureaucratic bungling. He criticized President Truman and warned that the administration uses fear to drive policy. He said Dewey and Warren would usher in a new era of fear and attacked efforts to polarize Americans by race creed or economic status.
Springfield AP reports Frank F. Brakeall aged 66, a retired state Forestry employee, killed himself after menacing two daughters in law. He reportedly struck Audie Brakeall, 21, with a butcher knife and threatened Carmine Brakeall, 22, with a shotgun before setting his home ablaze and dying in the flames.
Wallace campaigns after two days of attacks on Truman and Dewey and a plea to Americans to moralize. The Progressive candidate told Youngstown crowds the old parties offer banker choices and urged foreign policy based on democratic justice at home and abroad. He warned Russia mirrors current U S policy and urged moral renewal to strengthen the nation.
Washington AP reports phone labor leaders launch nationwide parades and mass meetings to drum up backing for a third round wage hike. Rival unions representing 350000 workers back demonstrations over a potential October 15 strike under Taft Hartley rules, with a threatened walkout if needed.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicts 1949 personal incomes will match this year and employment will stay strong. The Federal Reserve Board echoes a positive view for farmers with rising buying power, though small-acreage farmers struggle and many take industrial jobs as nonfarm population grows since 1937.
Chicago Cardinals tackle Stanley Mauldin, 27, died after the Cardinals beat the Eagles 21 to 14. He collapsed in the dressing room two hours after the game, with doctors citing a possible skull hemorrhage or massive heart attack. Mauldin, a Texas native, left Mundelein wife Helen and 5 year old Daniel.
Snow fell in parts of the mountain and west coast states with a cool belt from the eastern Rockies to the Atlantic. The Weather Bureau cited snow and rain mixed showers at Great Falls Montana Reno Nevada Burns Oregon and other locales with temperatures around freezing from Michigan to New England as the cold spell is expected to persist through the weekend.
A Lancaster grand jury handed 27 indictments charging gambling and stolen meat purchases. John L. Johnson, 47, Lancaster Chamber of Commerce president, is among those arrested. Sheriff Highley expects 20 more arrests by nightfall and the panel urged a probe of Mayor Von Stein and Police Chief Hutsler for neglect and condoning gambling.
Senator Baldwin asked the Armed Services Committee to investigate why Ilse Koch’s life sentence for Buchenwald prison deaths and tortures was cut to four years. He cites irregularities including a childbirth in custody and notes Gen. Lucius Clay approved the reduction.
U S Senator Robert A Taft told Republican women that electing a GOP delegation to Congress from Ohio is vital and attacked President Truman over inflation and high prices. Rep Everett Dirksen pressed for a decisive November victory to end a 16 year crisis with free government at stake.
A blaze in St. Mathieu Quebec left 22 families homeless destroying 37 structures including the shopping district and a church. Mrs Delphos Heroux 70 died of a heart attack while her son restrained her from reentering the burning home. Loss estimated at 250000 with cause undetermined.
Mrs Faire Stevens 42, a former New York actress, died after apparently falling down stairs at her home in Columbus Ohio. A shard of glass from a cocktail table pierced her neck. she worked for a furrier and was married to painter William Stevens.
New York reports clocks gain an extra hour tonight as Daylight Saving Time ends. The change occurs at 2 a.m. tomorrow, with most people setting back one hour before sleep. A Commerce and Industry Association survey notes nearly all U S areas on daylight saving will switch. About 60 million Americans have been under daylight saving since April 25.
The National Association of Broadcasters questions the FCC authority to ban give away programs. NAB says enforcement should come from the attorney general and courts if prize shows violate criminal lottery statutes. NAB has advised against a broad rule while awaiting October hearings.
The hurricane, after striking Cuba and Florida, was about 150 miles south of Newfoundland at dawn, racing northeast at 44 mph. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned no land danger, but vessels ahead were in danger as rough seas and heavy swells were forecast for Newfoundland and Nova Scotia over the next 12 hours.
Soviet deputy Vishinsky denounces the Western alliance in a UN speech as five defense ministers from Britain France and the Benelux nations plan a Paris meeting to discuss military problems. He calls for one third cuts in forces and urges creation of an international control body.
U S Delegate Warren R Austin dismissed Andrei Vishinsky's UN address as the same old stuff. Czechoslovakia Foreign Minister Vlade Clementis praised the speech as concrete and far reaching for peace. Cuban delegate Guy Perez Cisneros called it purely a bad speech.
The Russian delegate's address at the Assembly offered little news despite urging world arms reduction and atomic ban. France's two-week-old cabinet faces threats from coal and power strikes while Parliament disputes local election timing.
The Economic Cooperation Administration said aid to the French zone of Germany and the Netherlands will rise by 21 million dollars for the current quarter. Netherlands gets 15 million more, while the French zone of Germany receives 6 million additional in recovery spending beyond prior allotments for July to September.
In Galion Ohio a blaze of undetermined origin last night wiped out the Wade Stevens lumber mill. Loss sought at eighty five thousand dollars with the fire chief reporting one hundred woodworking machines twelve thousand dollars in finished orders and four carloads of lumber lost. Firemen saved six trucks and office files.
Dr. Charles E. Paul a 45 year old dentist died in a two car collision on Olentangy River Road near Columbus. The wreck occurred last night and details from police are pending.
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